Cultivating Home. Inspiring Purpose. Thriving Together.
Our Communities
Every community Vanda Health manages has its own personality, its own story, and its own definition of what home means to the people who live there.
Our role is not to remake those communities into a corporate vision. It is to understand what makes each one uniquely itself, and build from there.
Partnership, Not Management
Vanda Health works with care communities and their owners to improve business operations and quality outcomes — not by installing a uniform system, but by building real partnerships with communities that already know who they are and what they stand for.
We work with boutique, independently spirited communities across assisted living, residential care, memory care, and adult foster settings. We are not assembling a portfolio of identical properties run to a corporate template. We are partnering with communities that have something worth protecting — and helping them protect and grow it.
We partner with communities throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, and Arizona. In each one, the work looks the same: show up, listen, invest, and work alongside the people inside to make it better — for residents, families, staff, and the owners who hand us something they have built and trust us not to ruin it.
What Our Management Approach Produces
Three of Vanda Health's managed communities — Harvest Homes in Portland, Elite Care Oatfield Estates in Milwaukie, and Adara Oaks Manor in Gresham — are the first assisted living communities in Oregon to receive the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for Assisted Living Accreditation.
The Joint Commission drives quality improvement in healthcare through a rigorous accreditation process. Earning the Gold Seal required our teams to bring together written policies, approximately 800 regulations, and more than 20 interdisciplinary care pathways into a coherent, demonstrable system of safe, equitable, and compassionate care.
Being first in Oregon to achieve this is not a marketing credential. It is the result of years of sustained work by the teams inside each community — and a concrete measure of what this management approach produces when it is given the time and conditions to work.
What The Accreditation Process Required:
- Preparation beginning more than a year before the onsite review
- Writing, revising, and formalizing policies and procedures across all operational domains
- Aligning job descriptions and creating orientation checklists for new employees
- Addressing environmental and emergency management regulations beyond Oregon's Administrative Rules
- Sustained interdisciplinary teamwork across clinical, operational, and leadership functions
- An onsite review by Joint Commission surveyors covering emergency management, infection control, medication management, environment of care, and leadership
Our Feathered Friends
Vanda Health communities have onsite chickens that residents help care for. It started as an enrichment program. It has become something harder to categorize — a fixture of daily life that residents look forward to, take ownership of, and talk about with their families.
One chicken in particular has earned a title: the guiding principles chicken. The name is partly a joke and partly not. We believe care communities should be places where life is lived, not just managed, where purpose shows up in small things as often as large ones, and where residents are participants, not passengers. A chicken that residents name and argue over and tend to every morning is, it turns out, a reasonable expression of that.
If you visit one of our communities, you will probably meet her. We think that tells you something about the kind of organization we are.
Vanda Health’s communities have onsite chickens that residents help care for. These feathery friends have become our unofficial community mascot. Our guiding principles chicken serves as a reminder of what we believe in.
Our Guiding Principles
What We Believe
All Vanda Health communities are united by a shared vision of what senior living can and should be, guided by a set of common principles. These are not aspirational statements. They are the standards we hold ourselves to every day, in every interaction, in every community we serve.
We Care
We Care
Above all else, we care about the services we are delivering and the people we are serving. Our passionate convictions are evident during every interaction with the seniors residing in our communities. Our central focus is on the customer/resident and on creating positive experiences for them.
We Lead
We Lead
We lead with others in mind first. We believe in teaching others to lead through hands-on training, education, and development, and we model the way through exemplary leadership and coaching. We take a caring, gentle-spirited, and good-humored approach to developing relationships and providing feedback. We are fully committed to creating and supporting professional growth opportunities for the team members within our communities.
We Have Fun
We Have Fun
We believe that work should be fun. We enjoy what we do and wake up each day looking forward to the opportunity to help seniors. We believe in the power of positivity and know the day-brightening potential of a smile and kind word. We value camaraderie, celebrate team and community successes, and encourage our team members to pursue their passions to achieve work life balance.
We Expect Excellence
We Expect Excellence
We give our best efforts to our communities every day. We embrace and promote resident-centered, evidence-based care practices through hands-on leadership and exceptional customer service. We set high standards of care, seize the opportunity to improve, and always strive to overachieve expectations.
We Collaborate
We Collaborate
We believe in meaningful collaboration. We seek to understand challenges through ongoing conversations with and attentive listening to all stakeholders. We eliminate work silos to bridge best practices across the interdisciplinary team. We provide open and honest feedback and strive for transparent communication.
We Are Agile
We Are Agile
We believe in being agile and flexible to meet and exceed the needs of our residents. We solve problems by combining out-of-the-box thinking, ingenuity, and innovation with sound decision making and realistic follow-up strategies.
We Have Integrity
We Have Integrity
We are people of great integrity. Our daily practices and interactions are guided by strong ethics and nobleness in character. We believe relationships are built on honesty, trust, commitment, and accountability.
We Grow
When our people grow, our mission grows. We are committed to learning, development, and creating meaningful growth opportunities that strengthen our team, our culture, and the communities we serve.
The Communities We Are Proud to Call Our Own
Each Vanda Health community has its own distinct identity, history, and care culture. What they share is a commitment to the guiding principles above and a management team that is personally invested in their success. Below is a brief introduction to each of our current managed communities.
Harvest Homes
Assisted Living — Joint Commission Accredited
Harvest Homes is one of three Vanda Health managed communities to earn the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Assisted Living Accreditation — the first communities in Oregon to achieve this recognition. Harvest Homes is committed to resident-centered care, purposeful daily living, and a genuine sense of home.
Elite Care Oatfield Estates
Assisted Living — Joint Commission Accredited
Elite Care Oatfield Estates is a well-established assisted living community in Milwaukie and one of Oregon’s first Joint Commission-accredited assisted living facilities. Elite Care is known for its commitment to individualized care, open environment, and the philosophy that residents retain the right to direct their own lives and daily routines.
Adara Oaks Manor
Assisted Living — Joint Commission Accredited
Adara Oaks Manor in Gresham is the third of Vanda Health’s Joint Commission Gold Seal communities. A warm, residential-scale assisted living community, Adara Oaks is distinguished by its commitment to personalized care and community identity. The kind of place that feels like home from the first visit.
Canyon Rim Assisted Living
Assisted Living — Joint Commission Accredited
Canyon Rim Assisted Living is a valued member of the Vanda Health family of managed communities. Like all Vanda Health communities, Canyon Rim is guided by a genuine commitment to resident-centered care, purposeful daily living, and the belief that every person in our care deserves to feel at home.
Vanda Health is always open to discussing new management partnerships with owners and operators of assisted living, residential care, memory care, and adult foster communities in Oregon and across the Pacific Northwest. If your community is considering a management partner, we welcome the conversation.
Interested in a Management Partnership?
If you own or operate an assisted living, residential care, or memory care community and are thinking about a management partnership — or a transition from your current arrangement — we would like to hear about your community.
We partner with communities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, and Arizona and are open to discussing new relationships. The best management partnerships are built on fit — shared values, a shared sense of what good care looks like, and a shared idea of where the community is going. That is what we look for before we say yes to anything. It is also what we hope you are looking for.
Reach out to start a conversation. No obligation on either side.